Originally slated for release by Eagle Lion, Skipalong Rosenbloom purchased by United Artists -- who gave it a cursory...
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1951
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An insurance investigator, a dame with a yen for the finer things in life and a mail robbery gone horribly wrong are the...
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1951
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1950
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1950
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1950
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Though At War With the Army was the third film appearance of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, it was the team's first starring...
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1950
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With Dallas, Gary Cooper revived his long-dormant association with westerns. Cooper plays ex-Confederate officer Blayde...
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1950
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Spencer Tracy received an Oscar nomination for his performance in this classic comedy. Stanley T. Banks (Tracy) is a securely...
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1950
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1950
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The Buccaneer's Girl of the title, played by Yvonne de Carlo, is Deborah McCoy, an entertainer who's been around a bit. While...
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1950
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William "One Take" Beaudine warms the director's chair for Lippert Pictures' Tough Assignment. The film is essentially a...
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1949
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1949
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1949
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1949
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My Friend Irma was supposed to be a straightforward adaptation of the popular radio sitcom of the same name. The film's focus...
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1949
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1949
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The title couple and their enormous brood of bumpkins made their movie debut in the film version of Betty McDonald's humorous...
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1949
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Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven deserves a historical footnote as director William Castle's only comedy western. Future...
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1948
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In this crime drama a psychiatrist tries to help a psycho patient who loses consciousness after he kills someone. When the...
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1948
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In this funny tale of deception and romantic fireworks, a rather prissy New England school marm finally gets a chance to...
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1948
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Joe Palooka, Ham Fisher's famed comic-strip fighter, risks his life to clear the name of his manager in this series entry....
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1948
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Yvonne DeCarlo dons 19th century "adventuress" garb once more in River Lady. This time she's a 19th century gambling queen,...
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1948
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This comedy focuses on a nuclear scientist who believes that his dead brother has been reincarnated as a dog. ~ Rovi...
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1948
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1948
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The Abbott & Costello western spoof The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap is predicated on an actual Montana law of the 19th...
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1947
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I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now is the heavily laundered musical biopic of sentimental songwriter Joe E. Howard. As played by...
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1947
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Having struck gold with the previous season's Dillinger, the King Brothers returned to Monogram as producers of The Gangster....
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1947
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Veterinarian Ronald Reagan contracts anthrax from treating diseased cows in this horsey melodrama from Warner Bros. In fact,...
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1947
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In this drama, Madeleine Damien (Hedy Lamarr) is a successful magazine editor with a free-spirited private life, but a number...
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1947
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1947
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Absent from films since 1938 (except as producer of a brace of RKO Radio features), silent-screen comedy favorite...
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1947
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By 1946, MGM's musical output was in the hands of two men: the incisive, progressive Arthur Freed, and the sentimental,...
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1946
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If Republic's skating star Vera Hruba Ralston could go "dramatic", so too could Monogram's skating star Belita. Produced by...
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1946
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Disparate twin brothers find themselves involved in romantic mayhem when their respective girl friends get them confused in...
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1946
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1946
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1946
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The Shadow (Richmond) investigates the murder of an art dealer with his only clue being a stolen jade statuette. ~ Rovi...
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1946
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The title tells all in the Monogram "expose" Black Market Babies. Alcoholic physician Dr. Jordan (Ralph Morgan) joins forces...
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1946
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1946
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Crooked newspaper columnist Jeff Mann (James Cardwell), who apparently was blackmailing half the criminal gangs in the city,...
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1946
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Mr. Hex was the first Bowery Boys epic in which the goofy Sach (Huntz Hall) is given superhuman powers. Hypnotized by a...
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1946
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The title The Lady Confesses is slightly misleading, since it's the hero of the film is accused of murder. On the eve of his...
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1945
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Dillinger, the was the ninth effort from the enterprising King Brothers, and their most financially successful film to date....
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1945
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There Goes Kelly is a followup of sorts to Monogram's 1943 comedy Here Comes Kelly, with Jackie Moran taking over for Eddie...
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Delaney
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1945
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Masterfully directed by Fritz Lang, Scarlet Street is a bleak film in which an ordinary man succumbs first to vice and then...
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1945
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Robert Young stars as a WW2 pilot named Hank, who accompanies his pal Jerry (Bill Williams, in his film debut) on a furlough....
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1945
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Surprisingly, leading lady Marjorie Weaver isn't the Fashion Model in this tongue-in-cheek Monogram meller. When two...
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1945
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Greg McClure stars as legendary boxer John L. Sullivan in this screen biography of the famous fighter. Known as "The Boston...
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1945
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Hollywood and Vine is set in a drugstore located at the intersection of the title. James Ellison plays a successful...
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1945
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Incendiary Blonde is a highly entertaining if historically suspect biopic of "Queen of the Nightclubs" Texas Guinan. As...
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1945
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1945
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1945
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Originally, producer Harry Sherman's Woman of the Town was slated for Paramount release, but that studio was overloaded with...
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1944
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This '40s film (based upon a Jack London story) is set in Alaska's gold rush days and revolves around the dilemma faced by a...
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1944
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After producing, writing and directing one hit film after another, Preston Sturges finally misfired with the biopic The Great...
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1944
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1944
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It took nerve for writer/director Preston Sturges to lampoon the whole concept of hero worship in the middle of World War...
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1944
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Timber Queen is another of Pine-Thomas' rugged low-budget adventure films of the 1940s, most of which (like this one) starred...
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1944
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In this musical, two young people inherit their foster father's nightclub. The joint teeters on the brink of bankruptcy...
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1944
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One-time movie crooner Dick Powell literally turned his career around in the 1944 film noir Murder My Sweet. Powell stars as...
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1944
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Charlie Chan's second mystery for Poverty Row company Monogram, The Chinese Cat is one of the inscrutable detective's better...
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1944
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Betrayed is the reissue title for the classic melodrama When Strangers Marry. In her third film, Kim Hunter plays a waitress...
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1944
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Substantially, Lupe Velez' Columbia vehicle Redhead from Manhattan was the same as her previous RKO starrers-boisterous,...
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1943
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1943
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RKO horror producer Val Lewton dished up seven reels of brooding psychological terror with The Ghost Ship. Richard Dix stars...
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1943
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The East Side Kids, featuring Leo Gorcey, Gabriel Dell and Huntz Hall, star in this spirited blend of action and comedy. The...
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1942
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Director Curtis Bernhardt hadn't wanted to make Juke Girl, but he was under contract to Warner Bros. and had to tow the line...
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1942
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The fourth production from the enterprising King Brothers, Rubber Racketeers drew its inspiration from late-breaking...
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1942
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Tales of Manhattan is a sumptuous multipart film centered around a formal tailcoat. The coat is specially designed for stage...
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1942
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1942
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The Two Yanks in Trinidad are gangsters Tim Reardon (Pat O'Brien) and Vince Barrows (Brian Donlevy), who split up over a...
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1942
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As for the opening reels, the principal motivating factor is money. After a deliberately confusing pre-credit sequence (not...
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1942
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Lucille Ball delivers the finest dramatic performance of her career in this satisfying adaptation of Damon Runyon's The Big...
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1942
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By Monogram standards, the cast of Isle of Missing Men was Academy Award calibre. John Howard and Gilbert Roland head a group...
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1942
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In this musical, a convict finds his life calling after a prison show is staged and he discovers a talent for stage...
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1942
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The unlikely combination of John Wayne and Joan Blondell adds a bit of vinegar and spice to the so-so costume drama Lady for...
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1941
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The girl is stenographer Dot Duncan (Lucille Ball); the guy is her boss, stuffy young shipping magnate Stephen Herrick...
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1941
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James Stewart's last Hollywood film before entering military service, Come Live with Me teams Stewart with the hauntingly...
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1941
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1941
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Next to Ann Miller, few Columbia contractees made more B musicals than Jinx Falkenberg. In Sing for Your Supper, Falkenberg...
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1941
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1940
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Universal Studios had their "B" musicals down to a science in the 1940s. All that was needed was a cast of talented...
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1940
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In this adventure, the final entry in the "Renfrew of the Mounties" series, the intrepid RCMP officer and his girl friend...
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1940
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Characterized by some critics as a "South African western", Diamond Frontier stars Victor McLaglen as ruthless diamond hunter...
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1940
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To quell the rumors that musical stars Alice Faye and Betty Grable detested each other (actually they were fast friends, if...
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1940
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The moral of Preston Sturges' first directorial effort The Great McGinty seems to be: If you're a crook, stay a crook,...
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1940
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"Strange" is right: this mystical MGM melodrama has to be the oddest of the studio's Clark Gable-Joan Crawford vehicles. When...
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1940
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1940
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The Refugee was the original release title for the offbeat John Wayne vehicle Three Faces West. Wayne, Sigrid Gurie and...
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1940
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1940
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A federal agent and a petty Naval officer are both investigating the theft of top-secret defense plans. Since neither one is...
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Nick
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1939
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In this actioner, a U.S. border patrol agent stationed in Tijuana loses his job and gets into deep trouble after a friend is...
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1939
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This film should have been a press agent's dream: Hollywood's two greatest "big mouths," Joe E. Brown and Martha Raye,...
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1939
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Harold Lloyd plays a professor of Egyptology, frightened by the notion that he has fallen under an ancient Egyptian curse....
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1938
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A macho Cossack immigrant to the U.S. goes West and joins a ring of rustlers. Later his son follows him to states and he too...
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1938
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Broadway Musketeers is a remake of the 1932 Warner Bros. drama Three on a Match, with numerous concessions made to the now...
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1938
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Veteran character actors Mary Boland and Ernest Truex are aces as the stars of Republic's Mama Runs Wild. "Mama" is...
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1938
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The trials faced by the US Army when it first attempted to trade horses for tanks provides the basis of this actioner. The...
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1938
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In this tuneful, romantic drama, an Australian opera star (Grace Moore) wants to perform in a major U.S. festival but cannot...
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1937
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The disarmingly zany Marry the Girl was one of the better Hugh Herbert "B"-vehicles for Warner Bros. Much of the story takes...
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1937
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Allegedly based on two factual works, Bouck White's The Book of Daniel Drew and Matthew Josephson's The Robber Barons, RKO's...
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1937
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New Faces of 1937 was supposed to be the vanguard of a series of annual musical comedies -- RKO Radio's latest attempt to...
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1937
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1937
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Super Sleuth stars Jack Oakie as an egotistical movie actor who specializes in detective roles. Despite the gentle...
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1937
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Impressed by the popularity of radio program about the exploits of legendary safecracker Jimmy Valentine, advertising man...
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1936
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A couple of naïve girls get themselves unwittingly involved in the gambling racket in this Poverty Row production directed by...
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1936
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Bucolic Elmer Lamb (Stuart Erwin), who only wants to raise dairy cattle, is a mathematical prodigy; he's even a whiz at...
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1936
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In this melodrama the captain of a decrepit boat must get it to port but finds that racketeers are trying to prevent him...
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1936
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1936
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1936
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A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue in this comedy. Among the passengers is a millionaire bon vivant...
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1936
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Stodgily directed by actor Russell Hopton, this low-budget oil-drilling melodrama was one of three action-adventures teaming...
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1936
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Dialogue only punctuates this inventive, near-silent two-reeler starring the great Buster Keaton. He plays the titular Elmer,...
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1935
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Buster Keaton began his career in vaudeville as a child, starring with his father Joe and mother Myra as The Three Keatons....
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1935
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The construction site of a big tunnel provides the backdrop for this drama. When the project is delayed, the chief engineer...
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1935
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1935
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Mae West is Goin' to Town in this elegant post-Production Code vehicle. West plays Cleo Borden, a nouveau riche cattle...
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1935
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1935
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In this rather black comedy, a nervous office worker goes to a local quack for a check up and learns that he has only three...
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1935
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A wealthy young heir rebels when his snooty parents refuse to allow him to marry a lovely young secretary. Deciding to teach...
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1935
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A lover selflessly dumps her boy friend so that he will obey the wishes of his wealthy benefactor and marry someone more...
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1934
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Two popular film genres were combined by low-budget Chestefield Films in 1934, and the result was Murder on the Campus....
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Sgt. Charles Lorrimer
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1934
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Legendary Broadway impresario George White made his Hollywood debut with this musical, which he wrote, co-directed, and...
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1934
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1934
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Harold Lloyd plays Ezekial Cobb, a missionary's son who has spent his entire life in China. Cobb is sent to his father's home...
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1934
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Student Tour looks like an MGM musical two-reeler that was expanded to feature length as it went along. Charles Butterworth...
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1934
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Assistant DA Bob Martel (Bruce Cabot) is in love with sweet Muriel (Mary Brian). This in itself is not earth-shattering,...
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1934
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An idealistic but naive pharmacist believes the mobsters who claim they want him to manufacture illegal medicine to help out...
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1934
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1933
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Her Forgotten Past was released by Mayfair Studios, meaning that all the characters suffer in evening clothes in a handful of...
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1933
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William Powell is a poor East Side lawyer who works his way up the ladder to assistant prosecutor. He isn't too particular...
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1933
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1933
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At first concentrating exclusively on westerns and serials, up-and-coming Mascot Pictures began branching out in the early...
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1933
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Much of this exciting crime drama is set aboard an airplane in which a brave hero does battle with a gang of smugglers....
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1933
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The end of prohibition spells the end of business as usual for Chicago gangster Bugs Ahearn (Edward G. Robinson in this...
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1933
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We first lay eyes on Jimmy Cagney in Lady Killer while he's working as a movie theater usher. This job lasts just long enough...
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1933
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"I'm the finest woman who walked the streets," declares bejeweled, hip-swishing Lady Lou (Mae West) at the beginning of She...
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1933
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What isn't Heroes for Sale about? Within its 71-minute time frame, this film (co-written by "professional cynic"...
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1933
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Although claiming to be based on actual cases, this mild crime drama appears to have been derived more from a screenwriter's...
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1933
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A couple of down-and-out British aristocrats buy an American roadhouse in this uproarious farce from Paramount. Naming the...
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1933
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The French Foreign Legion is the setting for this episodic adventure yarn. Victor Jory plays a Legion doctor falsely accused...
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1933
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In this off-beat sci-fi film, an outspoken diplomat is murdered during an international trade conference. This is a terrible...
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1932
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An early screen version of the oft-filmed tale of Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Law and...
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1932
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This crime drama chronicles the relationship between a jewel thief who has gone straight and his estranged son who is...
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1932
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Based on a novel by Rian James, Hat Check Girl stars Sally Eilers as the title character, a pert little number named Gerry...
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1932
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This early musical is a bit slim on story but features a number of vintage performances by a stellar cast, including some of...
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1932
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William Powell plays a condemned murderer who is being transported from Hong Kong to San Quentin by way of a luxury liner....
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1932
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Set in exotic Singapore, this crime drama centers on a nightclub singer whose life is torn asunder when she is implicated in...
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1932
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In this WW II drama, the commander of the French cruiser Lafayette is sunk by a German U-boat. Following the rescue of the...
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1932
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Marlene Dietrich stars as Helen Faraday, a German cabaret singer in the States whose husband, Ned, falls ill and his only...
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1932
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The Russian Revolution provides the backdrop of this costume epic that centers around a young nobleman who, with his maid,...
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1932
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1932
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This shoddy "B"-picture represents one of the few talkie appearances by former Broadway matinee idol Lou Tellegen....
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1931
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